All posts tagged with: John Welsh

Conor Thomas’ injury-time penalty gave Cheltenham Town a valuable 2-1 victory over Grimsby Town, who will feel unfortunate not to have taken all three points themselves. Here’s our Player Ratings from the game. Cheltenham Town Scott Flinders – after a November during which Flinders was not called into action too much due to Cheltenham’s organization,… Read more →

With the 2018-19 League Two season not far away, The Football Lab spoke to Grimsby Town fan Paul Maddison (@LouthBigDog)… Over the last six months, there seems to have been two strong feelings at Grimsby: discontent with John Fenty’s ownership and excitement over Michael Jolley’s managerial potential. Would you say that the latter emotion has… Read more →

The big news at Deepdale this summer is that manager Simon Grayson has left after four years at the helm. In that time, Preston have grown from being League One relegation strugglers to become a respected top half Championship outfit. Supporter Ben – who runs the excellent Ben HD Championship channel – is grateful for the job Grayson did. He did brilliant… Read more →

Seven different forwards have started matches for Preston since their promotion to the Championship in 2015. The fact that none of them have scored more than six goals would suggest that the issue is related to the system, rather than attacking personnel. Simon Grayson likes his midfielders to be disciplined and while this has helped the Whites… Read more →

Here are The Football Lab’s thoughts ahead of 2 games in the Championship this weekend. Both Brentford and Sheffield Wednesday go into their match at Griffin Park off the back of a victory, as Brentford triumphed over Preston last time out while Wednesday recorded a League Cup victory at St James’ Park in midweek. Preston… Read more →

The Football Lab interviewed Preston North End fan James Haken, ahead of the new season. You can follow his Twitter account @TownEndTalk and blog. Preston secured promotion from League One last season. Having thrown away the chance to go up automatically in the latter stages of last season, with many leads dropped, were you somewhat relieved… Read more →

Finally. After 9 unsuccessful attempts, Preston North End have at last won promotion via the play-off route. It was what they deserved, after a league season in which the Lilywhites finished streets ahead of all the other teams below them, and were perhaps unfortunate to lose out on automatic promotion on the final day. Thanks to a… Read more →

The fact that this is a play-off match should strike fear into Preston North End supporters. Their team have never been promoted via the play-offs, despite the fact that this is the 10th time they have qualified for the competition, in all 3 Football League divisions. No team in English football have a worse record… Read more →

With the 2014-15 Football League season almost over, this blog decided to create a team containing the best players from the Championship, League One and League Two. The rules: no more than 4 players from any division, and no more than 1 player from each club. Goalkeeper – Daniel Bentley – Southend United At just… Read more →